Professional Certificate
in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism
30th March - 3rd April 2020, London, UK
Professional Certificate
in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism
30th March - 3rd April 2020, London, UK
Former MP & Minister
He was MP for Carshalton & Wallington from 1976 to 1997. He was PPS to Lord Carrington at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 1979 to 1982 and to Lord Lawson at the Treasury from 1987 to 1989. He was also Minister for Further & Higher Education in 1992.
Currently he is a visiting lecturer at the National School of Government, an instructor at Wroxton College (the UK campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey), and a freelance trainer of civil servants and others on subjects such as modernisation, public sector reform, leadership and political communications. He has also been the author of many articles and several books, including Constitutional change in the United Kingdom (Routledge, London, 2002) and Mastering British Politics (5th edition, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007).
He has been involved with the private and voluntary sectors – for example, as a non-executive Director of HFC Bank Ltd, a Council member of the Tavistock Institute, and a non-executive Director of Prospects Services Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit. He has degrees from the universities of Oxford, Harvard and Sussex and a Diploma from the College of Europe.